76TH SEASON of CONCERTS OCTOBER 1, 2017 / NATIONAL GALLERY of ART Program
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76TH SEASON OF CONCERTS OCTOBER 1, 2017 / NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Program Curtis on Tour Maria Ioudenitch, violin Andrea Obiso, violin Roberto Díaz, viola Michael Casimir, viola Joshua Halpern, cello Young In Na, cello OCTOBER 1, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT Kevin Puts ( b. 1972) Arcana Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) Grande Sestetto Concertante (after Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364) Photo by Pete Checchia Allegro maestoso Andante Presto Intermission Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) String Sextet in B-flat Major, no. 1, op. 18 Allegro ma non troppo Andante ma moderato Scherzo: Allegro molto Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso Program subject to change. 2 3 The Musicians MARIA IOUDENITCH Maria Ioudenitch, from Balashov, Russia, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC 2014 and studies violin with Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pamela Frank. Ioudenitch has Drawing upon ninety years of artistry, the Curtis Institute of Music pairs tradition appeared as a soloist with the Kansas City and Tupelo Symphonies; the Mississippi and innovation, educating exceptionally gifted young musicians as artist-citizens who Symphony Orchestra; the Mariinsky Orchestra; the Prince George’s Philharmonic; engage local and global communities through music-making of the highest caliber. and the National Symphony of Uzbekistan. Her awards include first prize at the Each year, 175 students come to Curtis, drawn by a tuition-free, performance-inspired Kansas City Young Artist Competition and second prize at the Johansen International learning culture that is nurtured by a celebrated faculty. The school’s distinctive Competition for Young String Players. Ioudenitch was also invited to perform for “learn by doing” approach results in more than two hundred concerts each year in Van Cliburn at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of his triumph at the First Philadelphia, as well as performances around the world through Curtis on Tour. Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, and she has been heard on Known as one of the world’s finest music academies, Curtis reaches global NPR’s From the Top. audiences through Curtis Performs, the school’s dedicated HD performance video Ioudenitch has attended Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and has participated in site. Online music courses and Curtis Summerfest programs offer lifelong learners master classes with Midori, Gil Shaham, and Pinchas Zukerman, as well as master other ways to listen, explore, and learn. And students hone twenty-first-century classes at the International Summer Academy at Universität Mozarteum. She began skills through social entrepreneurship programs that bring arts access and education studying violin at age three and piano at age nine. Her previous teachers include to the community. Gregory Sandomirsky and Ben Sayevich. The extraordinary young musicians of Curtis graduate to join 4,000 alumni who have long made music history. Each season, leading orchestras, opera houses, and ANDREA OBISO chamber music series around the world feature Curtis alumni. They are in the front Andrea Obiso, from Palermo, Italy, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2016 rank of soloists, composers, and conductors and hold principal chairs in every major and studies violin with Aaron Rosand. Obiso made his solo debut with the Orchestra American orchestra. Curtis graduates are musical leaders, making a profound impact Sinfonica Siciliana at the age of twelve. Since then, he has appeared as soloist with on music onstage and in their communities. Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Orkest der Lage Landen, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Limburgs CURTIS ON TOUR Symfonie Orkest, the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, and the Central Aichi Curtis on Tour is the Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, among several other ensembles. Institute of Music. An embodiment of the school’s “learn by doing” philosophy, Obiso appears frequently on television and radio in Italy. Among his many it offers students professional touring experience alongside celebrated alumni awards are second prize at the 2015 Aram Khachaturian International Violin and faculty. In addition to performances, musicians offer master classes, interactive Competition, the Special Prize for Virtuosic Performance at the Sixth International programs, and community engagement activities while on tour. Curtis on Tour Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and first prizes in another eleven also facilitates solo performances of Curtis students and alumni with professional competitions across Italy. orchestras and recital series. Since the program was established in 2008, students, Obiso began violin lessons at age six. He holds degrees in violin performance faculty, and alumni have performed more than two hundred concerts in Europe, from the Conservatorium Maastricht and Conservatorio di Musica Vincenzo Bellini, Asia, and the Americas. where he studied with Boris Belkin. Obiso performs on a 1741 Joseph Guarneri del Gesù violin on loan from the Yellow Angel nonprofit organization. 4 5 ROBERTO DÍAZ JOSHUA HALPERN A violist of international reputation, Roberto Díaz is president and CEO of the Joshua Halpern, from Dayton, Ohio, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2016 Curtis Institute of Music. As a soloist, Díaz collaborates with leading conductors and studies with Carter Brey, principal cello of the New York Philharmonic, and of our time on stages throughout the world. He also has worked directly with Peter Wiley, former cellist of the Guarneri Quartet. Halpern is the Crescendo Club important composers, most notably Krzysztof Penderecki, whose viola concerto Annual Fellow at Curtis. He has won top prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber he has performed numerous times with the composer on the podium and whose Music Association Competition, the Music Teachers National Association Senior Double Concerto he premiered in the United States. Strings Competition, and the Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition. He A frequent recitalist, Díaz enjoys collaborating with young musicians, bringing has performed as a soloist with the Miami Valley Symphony and Starling Chamber a fresh approach to the repertoire. He has performed with major string quartets Orchestras and will appear with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in the and pianists in chamber music series and festivals worldwide and is a member of the 2017 – 2018 season. Díaz Trio. His recordings include a Grammy-nominated disc of viola transcriptions As a chamber musician, Halpern has collaborated with such artists as Itzhak by William Primrose for Naxos, as well as releases on the Artek, Bridge Records, Perlman, Jon Kimura Parker, and Richie Hawley and has worked with Gary Hoffman, Dorian, Nimbus, and New World labels. Laurence Lesser, Robert McDonald, and members of the Borromeo and Emerson In addition to his decade-long tenure as principal viola of the Philadelphia Quartets. He has participated in several festivals, including Music Academy of the Orchestra, Díaz was also principal viola of the National Symphony under Mstislav West, the Taos School of Music, the Perlman Music Program, Ravinia’s Steans Music Rostropovich and a member of the Boston Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestras. Institute, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute Halpern holds a bachelor of music degree from the Shepherd School of Music of Music, where he continues to serve on the faculty, holding the James and Betty at Rice University. He began cello lessons at the age of ten and has previously studied Matarese Chair in Viola Studies and the Nina von Maltzahn President’s Chair. Díaz with Desmond Hoebig and Alan Rafferty. plays the ex-Primrose Amati viola. YOUNG IN NA MICHAEL CASIMIR Young In Na, from Seoul, Korea, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2013 and Michael Casimir, from Philadelphia, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2015 studies cello with Peter Wiley. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition and studies viola with Roberto Díaz and Hsin-Yun Huang. Casimir appeared as a scholarships, and Na is the Joseph Druian Fellow. Na has performed as a soloist with soloist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in 2014, after winning first place in the the Yewon Orchestra and has been featured on the Korean Broadcasting System, as orchestra’s string competition in 2013. His other solo appearances include venues in well as the European cultural channel ARTE. She has also played solo and chamber South Africa, Spain, Brazil, and Japan. Casimir has collaborated with many renowned recitals in Trio Dono with the support of Kumho Asiana. musicians, including Shmuel Ashkenasi, Emanuel Ax, and Christoph Henkel. In Na has participated in the Calahorra Music Festival in Spain and the Montpellier 2016, he performed with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. His other honors Music Festival in France. She has been a finalist or prizewinner in several competi- include second-place prizes at the Sphinx Competition in 2011 and 2015. tions, including the 2012 Johansen International Competition in Washington, DC, the Casimir, who began violin lessons at the age of two, received his bachelor of 2009 and 2010 Junior Tchaikovsky Competitions, and the 2009 Moscow Tchaikovsky music degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Heidi Castleman and Central Music School International String